The role is an exciting mix of compliance and advisory work. Apart from holding the current Direct Tax role, you are also provided a platform to delve into newer avenues.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Leading a team comprising of qualified chartered accountants and handling a bouquet of corporate clients

- Finalising client deliverables in consultation with the Partner

- Leading and co-ordinating tax planning and tax risk management assignments, with guidance from the Partner. This would involve handling advisory, litigation and business tax requirements of clients

- Consultation on inbound and outbound investments

Permanent Establishment issues

- Withholding tax advisory

- Reviewing key corporate tax returns and vetting of tax positions

- Overseeing litigation matters and attending to notices from the Tax Department

- Ensuring that business tax requirements are met

- Leading the review and modification of key tax processes and systems and identifying opportunities to streamline them

- Managing and maintaining relationship with clients

- Identifying new opportunities for serving existing clients, deciding the scope and pricing

- Initiating and actively participating in client meetings

- Supervising, training and mentoring the team

- Actively working with cross-functional teams to provide holistic tax solutions to clients

- Ensuring that projects are completed efficiently within the budgeted time and cost

- Supporting practice management initiatives and catering to financial metrics

Educational qualifications preferred

Category: Professional Course

Degree: Chartered Accountancy - CA

Required work experience

Industry: CA Firm / Consulting

Role: Manager

Required Competencies:

Core Competencies:

Commercial Awareness: Able to understand the key business issues that affect profitability and growth of an enterprise and takes appropriate action to maximise success.

Customer Service: Exceeding customer expectations by displaying a total commitment to identifying and providing solutions of the highest possible standards aimed at addressing customer needs.

Diversity: Treats all individuals with respect, responds sensitively to differences and encourages others to do likewise.

Independence: Actions based on own convictions rather than on a desire to please others. Is prepared to challenge others and has the courage to stand up for what they believe to be right.

Interpersonal Sensitivity: Awareness of other people and environment and own impact on these. Actions indicate a consideration for the feelings and needs of others, (but not to be confused with sympathy).

Leading People: Motivates, enables and inspires others to succeed, utilising appropriate styles. Has a clear vision of what is required and acts as a positive role model.

Openness to Change: Proactively supports change and effectively adapts his/her approach to suit changing circumstances or requirements.

Organisational Collaboration: Capacity to perceive the impact and implications of decisions and activities on other parts of the organisation. Actions taken are focused on the organisation. Working with others towards a common purpose.

People Development: Developing the skills and competencies of subordinates through training and development activities related to current and future jobs.

Strategic Perspective: Takes account of a wide range of longer-term issues, opportunities and contingencies. Identifies the means of implementing plans in line with the vision and direction.

Required Skills:

To be tailor-fit for the above skillsets, you need to have,

1. A strong passion and interest for tax

2. 6+ years experience in

- Income tax advisory, litigation and compliance

- Assignments involving significant technical research

- Strong Project Management skills

- Knowledge on interpretation of double tax avoidance agreements

- Working knowledge of Transfer Pricing principles

3. Experience in/exposure to FEMA will be an added advantage

4. Good communication skills including legal/technical drafting

5. Good interpersonal skills

Only candidates currently residing in or willing to relocate to Pune need apply.

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